The judge spends twenty plus pages laying out why the law was adopted with the intent to discriminate http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/VeaseyOpinion100914.pdf Read pages 24 to 50 for a discussion of the procedures used to adopt this law and why this law was designed to discriminate. This is a well written opinion that outlines why this law was adopted with the intent to discriminate.
I am a classmate with Senator Kirk Watson and I know that Kirk, Wendy Davis, Leticia van de Putte and others proposed numerous amendments designed to make the law less discriminatory and these amendments were tabled because the sponsors wanted a very restricted law to keep Democrats from voting. Here is a sample of the amendments offered.
An amendment to provide that the State could not charge for any document necessary to obtain the proper identification
http://www.journals.house.state.tx.us/hjrnl/82r/pdf/82RDAY40FINAL.PDF#page=21
An amendment to allow students to use their student identifications to vote http://www.journals.house.state.tx.us/hjrnl/82r/pdf/82RDAY40FINAL.PDF#page=34
An amendment to allow the use of any identification issued by the State that contains a picture of the voter http://www.journals.house.state.tx.us/hjrnl/82r/pdf/82RDAY40FINAL.PDF#page=36
An amendment to allow county voter registrars to issue identifications with picture of the voter to be used to vote http://www.journals.house.state.tx.us/hjrnl/82r/pdf/82RDAY40FINAL.PDF#page=59
An amendment to provide for the state to reimburse any voter for travel expenses if such voter meets the federal poverty standards http://www.journals.house.state.tx.us/hjrnl/82r/pdf/82RDAY40FINAL.PDF#page=64
The Texas GOP is not interested in preventing voter fraud but is only interested in suppressing the vote of minorities
This question is not a close one.
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